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Society had always been most ready to receive outsiders on any reasonable proof of fit¬ 
ness. The examinations were conducted in that spirit, and any person might pass them, 
and any unfit might qualify himself to pass them. 
Mr. Shaw remarked that, as Mr. Abraham had stated his opinion on the question of 
admission to the Pharmaceutical Society, he would merely say that he considered the 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society scarcely authorized by the members generally to 
make the concessions which had been published, more especially with regard to admis¬ 
sion to membership. 
Mr. H. S. Evans agreed with Mr. Sharp, that the Minor examination was not suffici¬ 
ently stringent for a qualification and stated that many candidates came for examination 
with a lamentable ignorance of the appearance of drugs and of botany. He urged that 
it was necessary to make concessions, and to reopen the door to existing chemists in 
order to pass any Bill, and that the Pharmaceutical Society had gone as far as possible 
in order to attain this end. 
The President, Mr. Sumner, proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Sharp for his paper, 
which had raised a valuable discussion. He said that the practical must be aimed at, 
and concessions made. To pass a Bill. Parliament must be shown, first, the necessity for 
actu n ; secondly, that an educational Bill was what they wanted. 
The vole of thanks was passed by acclamation. , , 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The sixth meeting of the Session was held in the Library of the Philosophical So¬ 
ciety, on the evening of March 13; the President, Mr. Thompson, in the chair. 
The following were elected Associates:—Messrs. Buck, Hardman, and Parker. 
Mr. Mayfield read the paper of the evening upon “The New French Codex.” By a 
rapid survey of the seventy-five sections in which the formulae of the work are arranged, 
he brought before the meeting the more salient points of difference between it and our 
own pharmacopoeia, forcibly exhibiting its much more elaborate character, although its 
merits in comprehensiveness are so greatly marred by the retention of absurd relics of 
past ages of credulous polypharmacy. In the discussion which followed the reading of the 
paper, it was suggested that under the French law requiring certain medicines to be kept 
by pharmactens, it must be very difficult to expurgate obsolete remedies for which some 
demand might exist, and hence new remedies were added without many old ones being 
withdrawn. 
After the thanks of the meeting w'ere offered to Mr. Mayfield, some further arrange¬ 
ments were made in connection with the cabinet for specimens of Materia Medica, pro¬ 
jected by the Associates, and to which they reported that many liberal subscriptions 
had been given. 
This concluded the meetings of the present session. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF JALAP. 
BY DANIEL HANBURY, F.L.S. 
The considerations which render it expedient that the cultivation of Jalap 
should be attempted in some other country than that in which the plant is 
indigenous, are the following: 
1. The present supply of Jalap is precarious and fluctuating. 
2. The drug is often of bad quality even when genuine, owing to the rude 
method in which the tubers are dried, and frequently to their Laving 
been collected while too young and small. 
3 The frequent admixture of other roots with the Jalap of commerce. 
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